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Many critics have noted how "The Middle Years" differs from James's other tales of writers and their troubles. As Frank Kermode said: "'The Middle Years' stands somewhat apart from the other stories of the literary life; the tone is darker, the ironies less vivid, the relationship between old and young more intimate and more understanding ...
The woman's films that were produced in the 1930s during the Great Depression have a strong thematic focus on class issues and questions of economic survival whereas the 1940s woman's film places its protagonists in a middle- or upper-middle-class world and is more concerned with the characters' emotional, sexual, and psychological experiences ...
Women have always had a presence in film acting, but have consistently been underrepresented, and on average significantly less well paid. [3] [4] On the other hand, many key roles in filmmaking were for many decades done almost entirely by men, such as directors and cinematographers.
Women of different classes performed different activities: rich urban women could be merchants like their husbands or even became money lenders; middle-class women worked in the textile, inn-keeping, shop-keeping, and brewing industries; while poorer women often peddled and huckstered foods and other merchandise in the market places, or worked ...
Three years later, some progress has been made, but more work needs to be done to ensure Latinx and Hispanic artists have equal representation, and support, in Hollywood as their non-Latinx ...
In 1912, Maud Watts is a 24-year-old laundry worker. While delivering a package, she is caught up in a suffragette protest which includes her workmate, Violet Miller. Alice Haughton, the wife of an MP, encourages women from the laundry to testify to a Parliamentary committee. Violet offers but is beaten by her abusive husband and Maud testifies.
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In 2023, “middle age” isn’t what you might think—now 40 to 50, middle age (in theory) is older than ever before—and everyone’s choosing their own path as we live longer lives.